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Kassiana

Apart from the fact that UU churches are very theistic, the teachings that you will give to your children will confront biases. It is arguable that your children will receive an unprejudiced comparative religious/non-religious education.
Let’s be honest, parents usually want their children to obtain their own religious postures and you are a neopagan. It is quite probable that your kids will turn out to be neopagans when young, till if fortunate, they apply some independency and a “think for yourself�? posture.

Moreover, most likely, you will highlight neopaganism above other religions when the teaching of it approaches.

In any case, I think it is a great idea to allow children to learn about different religions instead of indoctrinating them in following solely one.

T.

Anitra

When dealing with an individual, it is apporpriate to deal with them as they are. What an individual thinks is what that individual thinks, whether he is in the majority or in the minority.

A tradition, moreover, is created by individuals. What the individuals who were our ancestors believed is what is handed down to us as 'tradition." The individuals who believe differently now are going to change what "tradition" is for their descendants.

Anitra

All three are currently going on. If you have a chance to read The Battle for God, by Karen Armstrong, she describes the same things going on in many other periods of history, during times of social upheaval and cultural clash. Some people swing to extreme skepticism, the stand that nothing can ever be determined to be true. Some turn to nihilism, or to an inversion of their traditional religion. Some write themselves a new revelation. Some are converted to the religion of another culture. Some reinvent their own tradition. Some become authoritarian about maintaining tradition pure.

For the last 300 years, liberal theologians have been rethinking Christianity, Judaism, Islam, whatever their tradition was, to bring it into relation with the modern age. They are doing what you recommend in #3. But when one of us comes along and says, "I am a Christian but I don't believe in the supernatural, in the Incarnation or the Resurrection, etcetera," you respond with "Then you aren't a Christian, don't call yourself one." How do you rationalize that?